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Money Market Accounts are Simple and Safe
Because there are so many ways to save and invest money to earn more on your dollar, money market accounts have all but been forgotten. Sure, a money market account may not be the highest paying investment out there, but for what it lacks in quick...
January 19, 2012
A piece of climbing cord and a length of rubber gas-line tubing off a motorcycle engine. Who would have thought that success was to be found in the combination of these two seemingly innocuous materials? Ed Kalbach for one. And as president and CE...
January 19, 2012
A successful meeting requires more than a PowerPoint presentation and doughnuts. Utah facilities statewide offer amenities and assistance for even the pickiest of corporate planners looking to pull off an event to remember. We’ve compiled a list o...
January 19, 2012
International Travelers Contribute Increasing Dollars to Utah
Last Memorial Day weekend, Leigh von der Esch, managing director of the Utah Office of Tourism, visited the Chuck Wagon General Store in Torrey, Utah. “It was a totally international experience,” she says. “The counter was packed. I heard people s...
January 19, 2012
Continuing Utah’s Legacy of Success
Though the economic storm has darkened the nation’s business environment, Utah’s entrepreneurial spirit is still growing strong. As Ernst and Young’s 2010 Entrepreneur Of The Year finalists and award recipients show, the Beehive State is a fertile...
January 19, 2012
We asked, you answered and the votes have been tallied. Utah Business is happy to announce the winners of the 2010 Corporate Cuisine Awards. Your responses to our 12 culinary categories highlight Utah’s array of mouth-watering dining establishment...
January 19, 2012
A Roundtable Discussion Among Local Leaders
Participants:
Richard Nelson, Utah Technology Council
Hamilton Shattuck, IM Flash
Hal Widlansky, Mangia Technologies
Pratrap Khanwilkar, WorldHeart
Mike Flathers, Sorenson Media
Pete Ashdown, XMission
Jeremy Hanks, Doba
Kevin Laurence, ...
January 19, 2012
Small Business Should Consider Outsourcing
If there’s one thing Mary Crafts knows how to do, it’s throw a good party. Crafts, who is the founder, owner and creative director of Culinary Crafts, has been organizing events for more than 25 years.
After trying her hand as a social worker f...
January 19, 2012
Looking to the Future
When ContentWatch CEO Jack Sunderlage announced his retirement, the Salt Lake-based company began to search for its new chief. Luckily the company didn’t have to look far. The first person to come to mind was Russ Warner, who was currently serving...
January 19, 2012
HB 145 Equals a Cleaner Environment and Economy
What if you could rely on the sun to power your business, your home, your children’s school or your local church? The probability of this actually happening in Utah is one step closer to reality.
During the 2010 Utah legislative session, Represe...
January 19, 2012
Tips for Post-retirement Entrepreneurs
After retiring as a public utilities regulatory analyst and investigator for the trucking industry, Nancy Kilmurray became an entrepreneur. While her former career utilized her authoritative courtroom skills as an expert witness, her new business ...
January 19, 2012
Utah Industries Utilize Manufacturing Principles
Call it a revival of the Efficiency Movement in the United States, lean manufacturing models are re-emerging in business sectors worldwide, including Utah. The convictions behind using lean manufacturing models are not so different now than they w...
January 19, 2012
Short-term Bookings Raise Hotel Service Standards
Timing is everything. It’s a mantra that is repeated in boardrooms and break rooms, and is heard in stories ranging from sales pitches gone wrong to IPOs that made investors millionaires. And in the travel and tourism industry, timing has always b...
January 19, 2012
Sustainability Meets Health Company’s Goals
Businesses seeking to grow their market share are increasingly aligning with consumers’ values. We see this as more and more customers are increasingly factoring sustainability into decisions about buying stocks, products and, as Regence is findin...
January 19, 2012
Who should I hire to help sell my company?
When it’s time to sell a company, owners often find confusion over understanding the differences between a traditional business broker’s services and those provided by investment bankers. What type of professional advisory services are appropriate...
January 19, 2012
